published in 1949 by Rinehart as The Leather Duke
10th with sleuths Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg
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1950 Signet reissue
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Heads You Lose x 5
1943 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition
cover art by Ben Hallam, mapback by Ruth Belew
original title: Blood on the Black Market
cover art by Robert Stanley
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
above art repurposed from 1958 Dell edition of Frank Kane’s Syndicate Girl
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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Double or Quits x 12
1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
1942 Dell mapback reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
1951 British Publishers Guild reissue
1953 Dell reissue, cover art by Fred Scotwood
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1960 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Stanley Borack
1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett
2022 Mysterious Press/Open Road reissue
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1958 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Gerald Powell
1958 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Gerald Powell
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“Curt Cannon” was a pseudonym of Ed McBain
this, a paperback original grouping of short stories
June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto, oil on board, 26 x 18.5 in.
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H.H. Stinson, “A Window in My Coffin” (PI Kerry Monahan)
Peter Paige, “Death – On the House”
John D. MacDonald, “Suicidal Journey”
Ken Kessler, “Operation Murder”
Seymour Irving Richin, “Violence for Vicky”
Stanley C. Vickers, “Noose of Retribution”
Edward William Murphy, “Killings on the Conscience”
Michael Shayne’s Long Chance x 5 – – +!
1946 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg/map by Ruth Belew
1949 Dell reissue – cover art by William Jacobson
1955 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley
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1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
1964 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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February 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
cover art by Tom Lovell
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Carroll John Daly, “Monogram in Lead” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “A Date at the Morgue”
John K. Butler, “The Walking Dead” (Rex Lonergan)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Man Who Was Two” (Kip Lacey)
John Lawrence, “Broadway Malady” (Marquis of Broadway)
a letter from JKB appeared on pgs. 123-124
1957 United Artists
September 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder & Co.” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Carrion Cargo” (Eliot Knox)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Snatch as Snatch Can” (Paul Pry)
Ralph Oppenheim, “Brand of the Beast” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
6 x Give ‘Em the Ax
9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz
cover art by Harry Bennett
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